This week Nintendo held its newest Direct to showcase a bunch of video games, one among which flew below our radar till now known as Omega Strikers, and shock, it has an official launch date! To have fun the announcement growth studio Odyssey Interactive put out a brand new trailer (viewable through the Nintendo Direct stream) that showcases some fairly wild and dare I say enjoyable gameplay. If you wish to try the official gameplay trailer from a couple of months again, you’ll be able to examine that out beneath.
At first look, one factor involves thoughts. Omega Strikers is principally air hockey meets League of Legends. One thing which doesn’t appear so shocking when you realize that Odyssey Interactive was based by former Riot Video games workers. See, the purpose of the sport is to attain objectives, such as you would in air hockey. You management a personality and kick this disc throughout the world making an attempt to attain factors. There are a variety of various playable characters known as ‘Strikers’ to select from, too. And every one has distinctive talents to help in scoring objectives.
Matches are additionally 3v3 and based mostly on-line with multiplayer PvP components. All-in-all, it seems to be like a enjoyable method to a recreation formulation that generally feels prefer it’s been beat to loss of life.
Omega Strikers has a launch date of April 27
Should you’re wanting to examine this recreation out for your self when it drops later this yr, you gained’t have a really lengthy wait. Odyssey Interactive has confirmed the sport will launch on April 27. It’s additionally coming to a number of platforms. This contains Nintendo Swap, Android, iOS, and PC through Steam. And better of all, is that cross-play and cross-progression are totally supported on each a kind of platforms.
So for those who wished to play on cellular, PC, and Swap, you definitely may. And your recreation progress would journey with you. All of the whereas with the ability to group up with pals regardless of which platform any of you had been on.
When the sport launches there can be 15 strikers to select from, however extra can be added sooner or later. Moreover, there are future plans to launch the sport onto different consoles, however Odyssey doesn’t have something particularly to share right now.